Quotes About Disapproval

#1. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#2. My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life ... I had to live in my head ... art was a way of making myself feel better.

Philip Schultz

#3. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval.

David Foster Wallace

#4. She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.
He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

Laura Kreitzer

#5. But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Demetri Martin

#6. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

Harper Lee

#7. when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping

Pema Chodron

#8. Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Robert Grudin

#9. You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Judith Martin

#10. Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

W. Arthur Lewis

#13. Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Harold Bloom

#14. My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

Paul Lynde

#15. There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

John H. Makin

#16. And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

Anton Chekhov

#17. I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Agnetha Faltskog

#18. God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

John Piper

#19. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

J.K. Rowling

#20. In such a way is freedom of thought lost ... By small cuts. By small acts of disapproval. By a thousand discouragements of spirit.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

Gail Carriger

#22. Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Frank Moore Colby

#23. While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

Elliott Abrams

#24. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. They tell you how the demands of this law, which you and I cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how God Himself becomes a man to save man from the disapproval of God.

C.S. Lewis

#26. When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

George Robinson

#27. When he visited his and Adam's old bedroom, the thread of disapproval he'd felt during his proposal of a memorial became a rope, as he saw the savage absence not only of Adam but of himself. So when he shut the door on his family and stepped out into the rain it was an already belated act.

Toni Morrison

#28. When she dressed, she put on her Maycomb clothes: gray slacks, a black sleeveless blouse, white socks, and loafers. Although it was four hours away, she could hear her aunt's sniff of disapproval." (Chapter 1)

Harper Lee

#29. The chorus of disapproval is like one of those formula songs that seem to hit number one all the time. You know the tune in a moment and it begins to bore you in two.

Melina Marchetta

#30. You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

#31. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

Stephen Richards

#32. From Cherish Tomorrow ... "I want you," she said softly.
His jaw became rigid with disapproval. "I'm too damned old for you."
"You're perfect." She touched the hardness of one cheek with loving fingers.
"You're too young for me!"
She shrugged. "I'll get older."

Carole Mortimer

#33. Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Rudolf Bing

#34. I can't help but notice that in a society obsessed with fat - so eager in the appellation, so vocal in its disapproval - the only people who aren't talking about it are the only people whose business it really is.

Caitlin Moran

#35. If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

Barack Obama

#36. I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

Jeff Beck

#37. He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#38. The cycle of parental disapproval begins at dawn. That's why I have to get up five minutes before sunrise, so I can berate my grandpa like he was my own child.

Jarod Kintz

#39. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

#40. A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

Sadao Araki

#41. Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

Mark Twain

#42. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

Michael J. Sandel

#43. The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#44. Hedwig clicked her beak with a sort of dignified disapproval.

J.K. Rowling

#45. Marlys was a sturdy woman in her fifties, white curls clinging to her scalp like vanilla frosting. She wore rimless glasses, a homemade red-checked gingham dress, and low-topped Nikes. Short-nosed and pale, she had a small pink mouth that habitually pursed in thought, or disapproval.

John Sandford

#46. Mma Ramotswe had been understanding. Men who sired children and then failed to accept responsibility for them were anathema to her, and she reserved particular disapproval for those who then completely disappeared. She

Alexander McCall Smith

#47. As he gazed at the sun-darkened warriors, battle-worn before him, he decided that he would rather fight a hundred enemies than have to stand up in public and risk the disapproval of others.

Christopher Paolini

#48. The kind of courage that is strengthened or created by concern about what others will think is really a form of fear. Fear of disapproval or dishonor becoming stronger than fear of injury or even death.

Michael Josephson

#49. I turned and saw that Frank had joined me in the line. He took a step closer to me and said in a low voice, Mind if I jump the line? He glanced behind him at the older couple who were pursing their lips in disapproval, and said, too loudly, Thank you for saving my place in line, Emily!

Morgan Matson

#50. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification.

Jerry Bridges

#51. When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

Adam Mansbach

#52. I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

Helen Keller

#53. but it was considerably better than my current defensive armament, which consisted of harsh words and heavy disapproval. Probably not effective against Klingons. Spike

Dennis E. Taylor

#54. You know..." Amaranthe dumped her dust pile outside and returned to face him. "It's hard for me to maintain my vigor and enthusiasm for leading you when you do nothing but stand there and ooze disapproval at me.

Lindsay Buroker

#55. Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Alain De Botton

#56. They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval.

David Levithan

#57. Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Joyce Meyer

#58. Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.

Terri E Apter

#59. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Susan Cain

#60. When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

Dalai Lama

#62. Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform - should you change your mind.

John Irving

#63. My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had ... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Julian Fellowes

#64. Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!

Tui T. Sutherland

#65. If you can't handle others' disapproval, then leadership isn't for you.

Miles Anthony Smith

#66. It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Ellen Key

#67. What's that thing when someone gets a knock on the head and suddenly can't remember anything about himself?'
Death,' said the barman, his face a mask of disapproval.

Steve Aylett

#68. One person's disapproval shouldn't make you quit. If it's your passion, a thousand people screaming 'No!' still won't stop you!

Tammy Ferebee

#69. Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.

Winston Graham

#70. If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!

Bill Maher

#71. The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be ... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

Granville Hicks

#72. I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Franz Grillparzer

#73. Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference.

Margaret Atwood

#74. I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#75. There is no explaining why you love the people who belonged to you. No explaining why you couldn't be objective about them, or indifferent to their disapproval. They are woven into your soul with millions of threads, and cutting them out would make you bleed...

Marjorie Dorner

#76. Wear it, Eragon. If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

Christopher Paolini

#77. Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

L. Neil Smith

#78. Her mother's quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline's despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child, then by giving it her despair, the despair that left it unable to live.

Pamela Erens

#79. You're the warm sun that shines when everything else is dark," he went on, lifting his hands to rest them on the wall on either side of my face. "A smile and a hug in a roomful of disapproval. You're ... " Wincing, he pressed his forehead against mine. "You're everything.

Linda Kage

#80. When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Pema Chodron

#81. One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Andrew Horvat

#82. When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

Elizabeth Emken

#83. This truth, that I have to please only God, is an important key to becoming resistant to being manipulated by disapproval from others.

Rick Warren

#84. You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

Vashti Bunyan

#85. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#86. We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.

Marianne Williamson

#87. Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.

Charlaine Harris

#88. The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

Pema Chodron

#89. Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.

Kate Atkinson

#90. Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Leonard Rossiter

#91. My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Arabella Weir

#92. We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#93. The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval.

Wolfgang Koeppen

#94. Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.

Robert A. Glover

#95. Disapproval flashed across John's face. I wondered whether no one was supposed to touch me while he was in uniform, either.

Jennifer Echols

#96. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

Jo Coudert

#97. He crossed his arms over the chair back and smirked his disapproval at Brother Fowles. "Sir, I offer you my condolences. Personally I've never been troubled by any such difficulties with interpreting God's word." "Indeed, I see that," Brother Fowles said.

Barbara Kingsolver

#98. Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

John Oliver

#99. We are busy because we try to do too many things. We do too many things because we say yes to too many people. We say yes to all these people because we want them to like us and we fear their disapproval.

Kevin DeYoung

#100. Nowadays it's those hedonistic wastrels who pollute the air so that they can look at some pretty fish in the South Seas. It would be better if we only ever rode bikes. Oh, there's always someone wagging a finger in disapproval.

Hans Von Storch